#the curse of the black pearl
‘Tis the season for more pirates art
Commodore Norrington and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Some of my personal favorites
Intelligent arguments while out to sea
Boy if this ain’t me
tonight we virtually rewatched potc: the curse of the black pearl nearly two decades after seeing it in theaters as obsessive middle schoolers, and our rewatch yielded the following thoughts:
- the sequels never understood that what made this film great was the dynamic and arc between jack and will, a character who is 100% overly earnest naïveté and a character who is 100% irony, sarcasm, and self interest learning to care about each other
- elizabeth and will = peak magnetic YEARNING
- the comedic timing in this film is unmatched all around
- jack and will sword fight scene is matched only by its predecessor, the princess bride sword fight, which makes sense because they had the same fight choreographer
- this soundtrack still slaps, like the pirate music is so good that you can overlook the bad CGI
- as eleven year olds we did not understand how fucking good geoffrey rush is as barbossa?? he makes you intensely feel the villain death scene
- we stand by all of the iconic lines that were absorbed into our vocabulary for years
- future shows and films that made orlando bloom dark and brooding and gritty (cough cough carnival row) did not understand that we turn to orli for doe-eyed earnestness that gradually BECOMES brooding
- this movie holds up 100% (as a movie in its own world, removing the future weirdness surrounding johnny depp and the jack sparrow character), we have some intense nostalgia for #2, and #3 is where the franchise started truly going off the rails, thank you for coming to our ted talk
Geoffrey Rush e Kaya Scodelario in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales del 2017 di Joachim Rønning e Espen Sandberg
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Jack’s entrance
